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Aide Memoire: Meeting with international guests Hon Andrew Little, Minister of Justice 16 August 2018
Approved by: Saskia Righarts, Manager – Sector Strategy, Sector Group
Purpose
1. This aide memoire provides you with information for your meeting with five international
guests from the United States, Canada and Australia who have been invited to the Criminal
Justice Summit as part of Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata, Safe and Effective Justice. The
meeting is on 20 August, 3:00pm – 3:30pm at your office.
Background
2. Five international guests will attend the Criminal Justice Summit:
Adam Mansky Director of the Center for Court Innovation United States
Alison MacPhail A consultant specialising in justice reform
and access to justice issues
Canada
Jon Gould Professor at the School of Public Affairs and
College of Law at American University in
Washington, D.C.
United States
Elizabeth Grant Professor at the Aboriginal Environments
Research Centre, The University of
Queensland and University of Canberra
Australia
Tara Boh Blair The Executive Officer for the Kentucky Court
of Justice, Administrative Office of the Court,
Department of Pretrial Services
United States
3. See appendix 1 for further information about each of the guests.
4. The guests have been selected due to their criminal justice expertise, particularly in
criminal justice reform.
5. The guests are undertaking the following roles at the Summit: Adam and Elizabeth are
speaking at session 6: Aspiration. Alison and Jon are facilitating the breakout session 10:
Leading Change, and Tara is facilitating the breakout session 10: Keeping People Safe in
Communities.
6. We have also organised a number of sessions and site visits after the Summit so that the
guests can share their knowledge and experiences with officials, and for officials to give
them a better understanding of New Zealand’s criminal justice system. For example, the
guests are visiting Rimutaka Prison and the Wellington District Court (with a morning tea
with local District Court Judges), as well as meeting the Sector High Impact Innovation
Team (based at Corrections) and participating in a roundtable discussion with justice
sector officials.
Your initial engagement with the guests
7. Your meeting is an opportunity for the guests to introduce themselves to you.
8. While the guests have already been briefed about the reform programme, you may wish
to share your ideas about reforming New Zealand’s criminal justice system. You may also
wish to ask the guests about their experiences with reform in their countries.
9. In particular, Adam Mansky and Alison MacPhail have specific expertise in justice reform:
• Adam helped create and leads the Red Hook Community Justice Center cutting-edge
criminal justice programmes involving early diversion, alternatives to pretrial
detention, and alternatives to incarceration, throughout New York.
• Alison has led criminal justice reform at the Canadian federal level and in British
Columbia. She is now a consultant specialising in justice reform.
Appendix 1
Adam Mansky – Center for Court Innovation – USA
Adam Mansky is director of criminal justice for the Center for Court Innovation,
a US-based non-profit dedicated to creating a more humane and effective
justice system. He joined the Center to plan the path-breaking Red Hook
Community Justice Center, and then served as Red Hook's first project
director. Adam has helped create and leads the Center’s cutting-edge
criminal justice programmes involving early diversion, alternatives to pretrial
detention, and alternatives to incarceration, throughout New York.
Before joining the Center for Court Innovation, Adam practiced corporate law
and litigation in New York City, and received a B.A. from the University of
Michigan and a J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law.
Adam also serves as board chair of Transportation Alternatives, a New York
non-profit and advocacy organization dedicated to improving and increasing
pedestrian safety, urban bicycling, and public space.
Alison MacPhail – Criminal Justice Reform – Canada
Alison MacPhail is a lawyer with over 35 years of experience in public policy,
criminal justice and public safety. She has been responsible for criminal
justice policy and legislation for both the federal and British Columbia (BC)
governments in Canada, and has led major legislative and programme
reforms.
She spent the last nine years of her public service career as the Deputy
Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General and Deputy Minister for
Children and Family Development BC governments, and as the lead for
criminal justice reform.
She is now a consultant specialising in justice reform and access to justice
issues, and consults widely on a variety of justice organisational, policy and
legislation issues.
Professor Jon Gould – American University – USA
Professor Jon Gould is an internationally known expert on justice policy,
social change, and government reform. He is a professor in the School of
Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law at American University in
Washington, D.C.
Professor Gould has practiced law with the firm of Mayer Brown and Platt. In
addition, he has worked for the International Human Rights Law Institute,
served as a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow, and served as a Senior Policy
Advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice during the Obama Administration.
He is an award-winning author who has written on diverse subjects such as
erroneous convictions, police behaviour, hate speech, sexual harassment,
and international human rights.
He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and J.D.
cum laude from Harvard Law School.
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Professor Elizabeth Grant – Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, The University of
Queensland and University of Canberra - Australia
Professor Elizabeth Grant is an architect, anthropologist, criminologist, and
academic with a distinguished record in the field of Indigenous architecture,
with specialist interests in the design of institutional environments and reform
for Indigenous peoples.
She is a Churchill Fellow and holds an adjunct Associate Professorship at the
University of Queensland, an Honorary Professorship at the University of
Canberra and the position of the Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal
Prisoners and Offender Support Services. She consults to communities,
industry and government on Indigenous architectural projects. Her work has
had a major impact on the way prisons and prison housing for indigenous
prisoners are designed both in Australia and internationally.
She has published extensively on the topic of prison environments, while
tackling issues confronting correctional agencies such as overcrowding,
temperature control, conditions for women and children, human rights and
other factors affecting the prison experience, and is the lead editor of The
Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (Springer 2018).
Tara Boh Blair - Department of Pretrial Services - USA
Tara Boh Blair is the Executive Officer for the Kentucky Court of Justice,
Administrative Office of the Court, Department of Pretrial Services,
Administrative Office of the Courts, and has worked as a criminal justice
consultant for pretrial services for the last ten years.
She has authored the policies and procedures for her agency and developed
the training module for new and existing staff as well as interdisciplinary
training with the Department of Public Advocacy, State Prosecutors, and the
Circuit and District Judicial Colleges. She also led the design and
implementation of the pretrial case management system.
Tara has been a member of the National Association of Pretrial Services
Agencies since 1996 and a member of the National Institute of Corrections
Pretrial Network Group.
She holds a BA in Sociology and a BS in Police Administration from Eastern
Kentucky University.